Measuring tape



April 12 1927. 1,624,779

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1 Application filed octobe -e, 1-924. seria1mo.-?!7 f2;031..

In estimating the number of tons in hay V stacks of different sizes, a. great. deal of computing and the expenditure of quite'an amount of time, is now necessary, but it is the object of our invention to provide an improved form of tape line forineasuring the transverse perimeter of the stack, said line having numbers corresponding to the periineters of different stacks for disclos 'tiplying such number by the number of feet in the, stack, its approximate tonnage may be obtained.

A further object is to provide a ineasuring tape in which the numbers above re.-

ferred to and units of linear measurement are placed on the same tape, so thatafter measuring the transverse perimeter of the stack with said tape and obtaining the proper reading, the length of the stack may be measured with the same tape, permitting 1 the remainder of the estimation to be easily performed.

\Vith' the foregoing in view, the invention resides in the novel subject matter hereinafter described and claimed, the

description being supplemented by the ac-' coinpanying drawing.

Figure l adiagrammatic perspectiveview showing the manner of measuring the transverse perimeter of a hay stack.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the tape line,;partly broken away, certain of the tonnage representing numbers being omitted.

sides of. a portion of the tape. I

In the drawing above briefly described, the numeral 1 designates a tape linewhich is preferably wound normally in thewell' known casing 2. One side of this tape line,

divided into feet and inches. The line may be used for ineasuring' the transverse perimeter of any hay' stack, as llltllCiltetl'ln Fig. 1,

and for measuring the length of said stack.

The line 1 is provided on its reverse side,

with numbers 4: showin the a) roximate weight of a predetermined transverse slice of any of the plurality of different sized.

stacks, the weight'disclosingnumber for any slice being opposite themeasurement showing the transverse perimeter of the stack I containing such slice. For instance, if the transverse perimeter of the stack, measured as indicated in Fig. 1, or in an equivalent manner is 50 feet, the reverse side of the tape is inspected and a number will be found giving the approximate weight of a predetermined transverse slice through the stack, such slice being preferably one foot'thick. Then, .it is simply necessary to multiply this number by the number of feetin the length of the stack, to approximate the tonnage contained in the entire stack. Preferably, the tape line is provided with one set of numbers showing the approximatew'eight for alfalfa hay and with another set of numbers showing the 'approximate weight for other hay.v

It is an'easy matter to properly arrange the numbers 4t so as to give the approximate weights required. age weight of say five-hundred cubic feet of timothy, clover or analogous hay, may

readily be determined, and this number will be printed on the tape opposite the point thereon which, when co-acting with the free end of the tape, would extend around the perimeter of an imaginary slice .one foot thick and containing approximately fivehundred cubic feet of hay. The other numbers may be determined-in a like manner-v and placed at the proper points aloaig the tape. As the average weight of a quantity weight of other kinds: of hay, different For instance, the. averof alfalfa hay is different from the. average numbers are of course necessary on the tape for determining alfalfa weight. Figure 3 is a view showing the opposite It will be seen from the foregoing that yet that. it will be highly. efiicient'and desirable for estimating the tonnage in dif ferent' sizes of hay stacks, without the necessity' of consuming a great deal of time :or calculatingasmuch as is now necessary,

I We claim:

A hay-stack measuring device-compris ing a tape line adapted to be passed trans-g the invention is simple and inexpensive,-

of numbers at or near one pair'of which, the free end'of the tape .will be located when said" tape is positioned as above" stated, the numbers reached by said free hay While the other is that of another kind,

said tape also being divided into feet, whereby after determining the Weight of the aforesaid imaginary slice one foot thick; the length of the stack in feet may be measured with the tape, multiplication 10 of said. weight by the number of feet of stack length, giving the approximate weight'of the entire stack.

In testimony whereot We afhxed our signatures.

LOUIS C. DE-CAMP. ALFRED DE CAMP.

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